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madcaptenor

Fine, I'll start. These threads are easily found in Google.

January 2020: 244 wants to be hired / 697 hiring = 35%

February 2020: 227 / 677 = 34%

March 2020: 349 / 776 = 45%

April 2020: 521 / 601 = 87%

May 2020: 329 / 686 = 48%

June 2020: 305 / 659 = 46%

July 2020: 280 / 680 = 41%

August 2020: 410 / 828 = 50%

September 2020: 346 / 698 = 50%

October 2020: 295 / 810 = 36%

November 2020: 259 / 807 = 32%

December 2020: 274 / 766 = 36%

January 2021: 286 / 846 = 34%

February 2021: 232 / 1052 = 22%

March 2021: 227 / 964 = 24%

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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio

Jan 2015,334,98,0.29

Feb 2015,643,169,0.26

Mar 2015,680,177,0.26

Apr 2015,952,194,0.20

May 2015,891,199,0.22

Jun 2015,759,276,0.36

Jul 2015,1094,142,0.12

Aug 2015,974,176,0.18

Sep 2015,872,188,0.21

Oct 2015,1136,99,0.08

Nov 2015,896,99,0.11

Dec 2015,1000,95,0.09

Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio

Jan 2016,471,110,0.23

Feb 2016,781,127,0.15

Mar 2016,825,202,0.24

Apr 2016,719,280,0.38

May 2016,983,166,0.16

Jun 2016,1007,248,0.24

Jul 2016,898,209,0.23

Aug 2016,945,118,0.12

Sep 2016,911,162,0.17

Oct 2016,989,261,0.26

Nov 2016,1121,249,0.22

Dec 2016,840,120,0.14

Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio

Jan 2017,939,275,0.29

Feb 2017,1236,106,0.08

Mar 2017,1069,114,0.10

Apr 2017,956,163,0.17

May 2017,1096,236,0.21

Jun 2017,994,101,0.10

Jul 2017,982,105,0.10

Aug 2017,955,224,0.23

Sep 2017,957,113,0.11

Oct 2017,1136,126,0.11

Nov 2017,1199,145,0.12

Dec 2017,1000,69,0.06

Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio

Jan 2018,911,84,0.09

Feb 2018,1070,76,0.07

Mar 2018,1187,85,0.07

Apr 2018,1084,142,0.13

May 2018,1198,69,0.05

Jun 2018,911,90,0.09

Jul 2018,860,122,0.14

Aug 2018,1025,83,0.08

Sep 2018,922,73,0.07

Oct 2018,1110,113,0.10

Nov 2018,1057,162,0.15

Dec 2018,954,182,0.18

Added (blindly) the above data to a spreadsheet with a graph here[0].

If anyone wants to add the 2019 data in a comment, I'll update the sheet.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bjPl3a0ciH6U9-OaLXGQ...

There's already a comment from ed_balls with the 2019 data.

added, but I see the bigquery script that's now the top comment makes it redundant.

Date | Who is hiring? | Who wants to be hired | ratio

Jan 2019,966,265,0.27

Feb 2019,847,197,0.23

Mar 2019,880,246,0.27

Apr 2019,881,324,0.36

May 2019,1020,286,0.28

Jun 2019,800,232,0.29

Jul 2019,907,479,0.52

Aug 2019,861,284,0.32

Sep 2019,724,180,0.24

Oct 2019,905,406,0.44

Nov 2019,760,270,0.35

Dec 2019,907,271,0.29

Is April 2020 due to Covid lockdowns?

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